diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e0e41dc..a41b005 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -301,35 +301,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "crossbeam-utils",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "cookie"
-version = "0.18.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "4ddef33a339a91ea89fb53151bd0a4689cfce27055c291dfa69945475d22c747"
-dependencies = [
- "percent-encoding",
- "time",
- "version_check",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "cookie_store"
-version = "0.22.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "3fc4bff745c9b4c7fb1e97b25d13153da2bc7796260141df62378998d070207f"
-dependencies = [
- "cookie",
- "document-features",
- "idna",
- "indexmap",
- "log",
- "serde",
- "serde_derive",
- "serde_json",
- "time",
- "url",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "core-foundation"
 version = "0.9.4"
@@ -413,15 +384,6 @@ version = "0.3.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "be1e0bca6c3637f992fc1cc7cbc52a78c1ef6db076dbf1059c4323d6a2048376"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "deranged"
-version = "0.5.3"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d630bccd429a5bb5a64b5e94f693bfc48c9f8566418fda4c494cc94f911f87cc"
-dependencies = [
- "powerfmt",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "dispatch"
 version = "0.2.0"
@@ -727,12 +689,6 @@ version = "0.9.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "98de4bbd547a563b716d8dfa9aad1cb19bfab00f4fa09a6a4ed21dbcf44ce9c4"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "fnv"
-version = "1.0.7"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "3f9eec918d3f24069decb9af1554cad7c880e2da24a9afd88aca000531ab82c1"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "foreign-types"
 version = "0.5.0"
@@ -779,17 +735,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-targets 0.52.6",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "getrandom"
-version = "0.2.16"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "335ff9f135e4384c8150d6f27c6daed433577f86b4750418338c01a1a2528592"
-dependencies = [
- "cfg-if",
- "libc",
- "wasi 0.11.1+wasi-snapshot-preview1",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "getrandom"
 version = "0.3.3"
@@ -799,7 +744,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "cfg-if",
  "libc",
  "r-efi",
- "wasi 0.14.3+wasi-0.2.4",
+ "wasi",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -888,13 +833,11 @@ dependencies = [
  "egui_extras",
  "image",
  "open",
- "semver",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
  "static_vcruntime",
  "strum",
  "sysinfo",
- "ureq",
  "windows 0.62.0",
  "winreg",
  "winresource",
@@ -928,23 +871,6 @@ version = "0.5.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "fc0fef456e4baa96da950455cd02c081ca953b141298e41db3fc7e36b1da849c"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "http"
-version = "1.3.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f4a85d31aea989eead29a3aaf9e1115a180df8282431156e533de47660892565"
-dependencies = [
- "bytes",
- "fnv",
- "itoa",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "httparse"
-version = "1.10.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6dbf3de79e51f3d586ab4cb9d5c3e2c14aa28ed23d180cf89b4df0454a69cc87"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "iana-time-zone"
 version = "0.1.63"
@@ -1159,7 +1085,7 @@ version = "0.1.34"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "9afb3de4395d6b3e67a780b6de64b51c978ecf11cb9a462c66be7d4ca9039d33"
 dependencies = [
- "getrandom 0.3.3",
+ "getrandom",
  "libc",
 ]
 
@@ -1346,12 +1272,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "winapi",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "num-conv"
-version = "0.1.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "51d515d32fb182ee37cda2ccdcb92950d6a3c2893aa280e540671c2cd0f3b1d9"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "num-traits"
 version = "0.2.19"
@@ -1821,12 +1741,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "zerovec",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "powerfmt"
-version = "0.2.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "439ee305def115ba05938db6eb1644ff94165c5ab5e9420d1c1bcedbba909391"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "proc-macro-crate"
 version = "3.3.0"
@@ -1937,20 +1851,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "bytemuck",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "ring"
-version = "0.17.14"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a4689e6c2294d81e88dc6261c768b63bc4fcdb852be6d1352498b114f61383b7"
-dependencies = [
- "cc",
- "cfg-if",
- "getrandom 0.2.16",
- "libc",
- "untrusted",
- "windows-sys 0.52.0",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "roxmltree"
 version = "0.20.0"
@@ -1983,50 +1883,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.60.2",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "rustls"
-version = "0.23.31"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "c0ebcbd2f03de0fc1122ad9bb24b127a5a6cd51d72604a3f3c50ac459762b6cc"
-dependencies = [
- "log",
- "once_cell",
- "ring",
- "rustls-pki-types",
- "rustls-webpki",
- "subtle",
- "zeroize",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "rustls-pemfile"
-version = "2.2.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "dce314e5fee3f39953d46bb63bb8a46d40c2f8fb7cc5a3b6cab2bde9721d6e50"
-dependencies = [
- "rustls-pki-types",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "rustls-pki-types"
-version = "1.12.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "229a4a4c221013e7e1f1a043678c5cc39fe5171437c88fb47151a21e6f5b5c79"
-dependencies = [
- "zeroize",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "rustls-webpki"
-version = "0.103.4"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "0a17884ae0c1b773f1ccd2bd4a8c72f16da897310a98b0e84bf349ad5ead92fc"
-dependencies = [
- "ring",
- "rustls-pki-types",
- "untrusted",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "rustversion"
 version = "1.0.22"
@@ -2060,12 +1916,6 @@ version = "1.2.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "94143f37725109f92c262ed2cf5e59bce7498c01bcc1502d7b9afe439a4e9f49"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "semver"
-version = "1.0.26"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "56e6fa9c48d24d85fb3de5ad847117517440f6beceb7798af16b4a87d616b8d0"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "serde"
 version = "1.0.219"
@@ -2248,12 +2098,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "subtle"
-version = "2.6.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "13c2bddecc57b384dee18652358fb23172facb8a2c51ccc10d74c157bdea3292"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "svgtypes"
 version = "0.15.3"
@@ -2334,36 +2178,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "zune-jpeg",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "time"
-version = "0.3.43"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "83bde6f1ec10e72d583d91623c939f623002284ef622b87de38cfd546cbf2031"
-dependencies = [
- "deranged",
- "num-conv",
- "powerfmt",
- "serde",
- "time-core",
- "time-macros",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "time-core"
-version = "0.1.6"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "40868e7c1d2f0b8d73e4a8c7f0ff63af4f6d19be117e90bd73eb1d62cf831c6b"
-
-[[package]]
-name = "time-macros"
-version = "0.2.24"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "30cfb0125f12d9c277f35663a0a33f8c30190f4e4574868a330595412d34ebf3"
-dependencies = [
- "num-conv",
- "time-core",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "tiny-skia"
 version = "0.11.4"
@@ -2475,45 +2289,6 @@ version = "1.12.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "f6ccf251212114b54433ec949fd6a7841275f9ada20dddd2f29e9ceea4501493"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "untrusted"
-version = "0.9.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8ecb6da28b8a351d773b68d5825ac39017e680750f980f3a1a85cd8dd28a47c1"
-
-[[package]]
-name = "ureq"
-version = "3.1.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "00432f493971db5d8e47a65aeb3b02f8226b9b11f1450ff86bb772776ebadd70"
-dependencies = [
- "base64",
- "cookie_store",
- "flate2",
- "log",
- "percent-encoding",
- "rustls",
- "rustls-pemfile",
- "rustls-pki-types",
- "serde",
- "serde_json",
- "ureq-proto",
- "utf-8",
- "webpki-roots",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "ureq-proto"
-version = "0.5.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "bbe120bb823a0061680e66e9075942fcdba06d46551548c2c259766b9558bc9a"
-dependencies = [
- "base64",
- "http",
- "httparse",
- "log",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "url"
 version = "2.5.7"
@@ -2548,12 +2323,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "xmlwriter",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "utf-8"
-version = "0.7.6"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "09cc8ee72d2a9becf2f2febe0205bbed8fc6615b7cb429ad062dc7b7ddd036a9"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "utf8_iter"
 version = "1.0.4"
@@ -2576,12 +2345,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "winapi-util",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "wasi"
-version = "0.11.1+wasi-snapshot-preview1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "ccf3ec651a847eb01de73ccad15eb7d99f80485de043efb2f370cd654f4ea44b"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "wasi"
 version = "0.14.3+wasi-0.2.4"
@@ -2795,15 +2558,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "web-sys",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "webpki-roots"
-version = "1.0.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7e8983c3ab33d6fb807cfcdad2491c4ea8cbc8ed839181c7dfd9c67c83e261b2"
-dependencies = [
- "rustls-pki-types",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "weezl"
 version = "0.1.10"
@@ -3463,12 +3217,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "synstructure",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "zeroize"
-version = "1.8.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "ced3678a2879b30306d323f4542626697a464a97c0a07c9aebf7ebca65cd4dde"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "zerotrie"
 version = "0.2.2"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 10f26d1..a4c9024 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,12 +18,10 @@ egui_extras = { version = "0.32.2", default-features = false, features = [
 ] }
 image = { version = "0.25.8", default-features = false, features = ["png"] }
 open = "5.3.2"
-semver = "1.0.26"
 serde = { version = "1.0.219", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0.143"
 strum = { version = "0.27.2", features = ["derive"] }
 sysinfo = "0.37.0"
-ureq = { version = "3.1.0", features = ["json"] }
 windows = { version = "0.62.0", features = [
     "Win32_NetworkManagement_WindowsFirewall",
     "Win32_Security",
diff --git a/src/gui/app.rs b/src/gui/app.rs
index 2be89cb..34d52c3 100644
--- a/src/gui/app.rs
+++ b/src/gui/app.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 use crate::{
     features,
     gui::{colours, settings::Settings, tools, ui_ext::UiExt},
-    util::{consts::game::WINDOW_TITLE, meta::Meta, persistent_state::PersistentState, win},
+    util::{consts::game::WINDOW_TITLE, persistent_state::PersistentState, win},
 };
 use eframe::egui;
 use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ impl Default for Flags {
 
 #[derive(Debug, Default)]
 pub struct App {
-    pub meta: Meta,
     pub settings: Settings,
     stage: Stage,
     pub flags: Flags,
@@ -232,21 +231,9 @@ impl App {
                 ui.with_layout(egui::Layout::right_to_left(egui::Align::Center), |ui| {
                     ui.label(format!(
                         "v{} {}",
-                        self.meta.current_version,
+                        env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION"),
                         if cfg!(debug_assertions) { "(dev)" } else { "" }
                     ));
-                    let button = ui.add_enabled_ui(self.meta.newer_version_available, |ui| {
-                        ui.style_mut().spacing.button_padding = egui::Vec2::new(3.0, 0.0);
-                        ui.button("⬇")
-                            .on_disabled_hover_text("Already up to date.")
-                            .on_hover_text(format!(
-                                "New version available! ({})",
-                                self.meta.latest_release.version
-                            ))
-                    });
-                    if button.inner.clicked() {
-                        open::that(&self.meta.latest_release.download_url).unwrap();
-                    }
                 });
             });
             ui.add(egui::Image::new(egui::include_image!(
diff --git a/src/gui/debug.rs b/src/gui/debug.rs
index 5d549fe..92bc4b5 100644
--- a/src/gui/debug.rs
+++ b/src/gui/debug.rs
@@ -17,11 +17,6 @@ impl App {
             if ui.button("open storage path").clicked() {
                 open::that_detached(path::APP_STORAGE.as_path()).unwrap();
             }
-            ui.checkbox(
-                &mut self.meta.newer_version_available,
-                "spoof new version available",
-            )
-            .on_hover_text("(this could already be checked if\nthere actually IS a new version)");
             ui.scope(|ui| {
                 use windows::Win32::UI::WindowsAndMessaging::{
                     GetForegroundWindow, GetWindowTextW,
@@ -42,10 +37,7 @@ impl App {
                         ui.build_menu(&mut self.game_networking.blocked_status);
                     });
             });
-            if ui
-                .add(egui::Button::new("force refresh theme"))
-                .clicked()
-            {
+            if ui.add(egui::Button::new("force refresh theme")).clicked() {
                 catppuccin_egui::set_theme(ui.ctx(), self.settings.theme.into());
             }
         });
diff --git a/src/util.rs b/src/util.rs
index 9c2bb50..547cb56 100644
--- a/src/util.rs
+++ b/src/util.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
-mod codeberg;
 pub mod consts;
 pub mod countdown;
 pub mod log;
-pub mod meta;
 pub mod persistent_state;
 pub mod win;
diff --git a/src/util/codeberg.rs b/src/util/codeberg.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index 585da62..0000000
--- a/src/util/codeberg.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-use semver::Version;
-use serde::Deserialize;
-use std::time::Duration;
-
-const APP_USER_AGENT: &str = concat!(env!("CARGO_PKG_NAME"), "/", env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION"));
-const CODEBERG_ENDPOINT_ROOT: &str = "https://codeberg.org/api/v1";
-
-#[derive(Debug)]
-pub struct Release {
-    pub version: Version,
-    pub download_url: String,
-}
-
-impl Default for Release {
-    fn default() -> Self {
-        Self {
-            version: Version::new(0, 0, 0),
-            download_url: String::new(),
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-#[derive(Deserialize)]
-struct LatestRelease {
-    tag_name: String,
-    assets: Vec<Asset>,
-}
-
-#[derive(Deserialize)]
-struct Asset {
-    browser_download_url: String,
-}
-
-pub fn get_latest_release() -> Result<Release, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
-    let request_url = format!("{CODEBERG_ENDPOINT_ROOT}/repos/futile/gta-tools/releases/latest");
-    let mut response = ureq::get(request_url)
-        .config()
-        .timeout_global(Some(Duration::from_secs(10)))
-        .user_agent(APP_USER_AGENT)
-        .build()
-        .call()?;
-    let body = response.body_mut();
-    let json = body.read_json::<LatestRelease>()?;
-    let tag_name = json.tag_name;
-    let browser_download_url = &json.assets[0].browser_download_url;
-    Ok(Release {
-        version: Version::parse(&tag_name)?,
-        download_url: browser_download_url.to_owned(),
-    })
-}
diff --git a/src/util/meta.rs b/src/util/meta.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index c3d4f28..0000000
--- a/src/util/meta.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-use crate::{util::codeberg, util::log};
-use semver::Version;
-
-#[derive(Debug)]
-pub struct Meta {
-    pub current_version: Version,
-    pub latest_release: codeberg::Release,
-    pub newer_version_available: bool,
-}
-
-impl Default for Meta {
-    fn default() -> Self {
-        let current_version = Version::parse(env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION")).unwrap();
-        let latest_release = codeberg::get_latest_release().unwrap_or_else(|why| {
-            let message = format!("failed to get latest codeberg release:\n{why}");
-            log::log(log::LogLevel::Error, &message);
-            codeberg::Release::default()
-        });
-        let newer_version_available = matches!(
-            &current_version.cmp_precedence(&latest_release.version),
-            std::cmp::Ordering::Less
-        );
-        Self {
-            current_version,
-            latest_release,
-            newer_version_available,
-        }
-    }
-}